10 Ups & 4 Downs From IMPACT Wrestling Bound For Glory 2021

2. A Different Recipe

IMPACT missed a trick by sticking with the Good Brothers as their World Tag Team Champions. A changing of the guard was required here, with this statement being cemented when Doc Gallows and Karl Anderson fled the ring upon their victory without the titles in hand. The referee had to chase them down. This is something they've done consistently since first becoming champions, undermining the prestige of the titles.

The match felt out of place on this otherwise stacked card. It started fairly cold, picked up in the middle, and then slowed down a tad towards the end, where Gallows and Anderson would steal the win from FinJuice. Again, this isn't uncommon for the Good Brothers. Blind tags are a tactic they've used previously. They work well the first time, but keep overusing them, and you're doing your job wrong.

The in-ring content was mostly fine for what it was. The middle chunk with everyone getting their stuff in, while a common trope in these matches, was about as hot as the match got, even if Karl Anderson's face quite clearly never connected with Hikuleo's boot. IMPACT is committing to the Good Brothers as their champions, which makes sense from a business standpoint, but they need to provide better matches than this. They can't rely solely on their star power.

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